LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back.
A solidarity post and reflection.
Gillian Brockell
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Bezos should sell The Washington Post, but not to another billionaire
You can't stop a bad billionaire with a good billionaire, because there aren't any.
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What didn't make it into my WaPo Emmett Till story
More bias, background and the angel of history
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Trump can't laugh
The day after Kamala Harris entered the presidential race, I was scrolling through TikTok, trying to figure out the coconut thing, when I was served up a supercut video from the Daily Mail. I know these kinds of videos well; as a video editor for The Washington Post during the
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‘Why do you have to make everything about race?’
Square dancing, editing and history.
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Taylor Swift & the Chelsea Hotel
Girlfriend knows her tortured poets at 222 W. 23rd St.
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My late-night adventure with the Trump bible
When a Trump-grift mystery and too much Vyvanse meet: Think China.
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Selling a plantation in 2024
Nothing pricks a hole in the “it was so long ago, we’ve moved on” balloon like the meticulous preservation of the spoils of theft.
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Get the ‘arc of the moral universe’ out of your mouth.
Clean countertops, empty history.
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It doesn't matter if the next president dies or declines
Let's take a walk through history and right-size the panic about Biden's age.
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Hi! I compiled this thing about time for you.
Hey there! If I sent you this link, it is because I want to share with you something that changed my life. It comes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” He was in jail because of a bunch of super-racist white a-holes who loved oppressing
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One neat trick to prove the Civil War was not about states’ rights
The dead week between Christmas and New Year’s was always a banner time for Retropolis. Perhaps readers felt they weren’t too busy to read something historical and that may or may not have any relevance to their lives. In successive years, we got on huge traffic on this